Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Deterence/Archive

12 August 2011

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In this thread Talk:2011_England_riots, there seems to be a back and forth between the named account and the IP. The increased pitch towards a "consensus" in the thread, made my ducky sense activate. This seems like the usual "two different browsers open/speaking to yourself" sockpuppet amateur hour we see in controversial articles by garden-variety POV pushers. Initially I participated earnestly in the thread, but when I realized this, I stopped and have been pondering for half a day if if the ducky was passed on the left-hand side, and what pushed me was this warning on personal attacks User_talk:Deterence on Main Page talk, which seems to exhibit the same consistent disregard to a focus on content and not editors. I think it is a sock under duck test criteria, and speaking to yourself to influence consensus in a controversial topic is disruptive behavior (this is not . Also interesting edit history for both: Deterence 2.5.187.71. This user is a fairly new editor. Thanks. Cerejota (talk) 02:16, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

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 * They do seem to edit around the same time of day. I've blocked the IP 3 days on behavioral grounds. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:45, 12 August 2011 (UTC)